74 year old woman dies after being struck by a bus in Co-op City in the Bronx, New York

Gloria Mabry, 74 died in a bus accident in New York on Friday night. It was raining that night and the grandmother was coming back from the supermarket. She was pushing a cart full of groceries when she was struck and killed by a MTA bus on Co-op City Boulevard and Dreiser Loop.

Pedestrian fatalities are on the rise in New York city and more than 220 New Yorkers have been killed in traffic accidents this year. In a plan called “Vision Zero” Bill de Blasio committed to eliminating traffic accident deaths by 2014. We shall see.